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1 December 2010 |
Lecture |
In 1968, in his Inaugural Lecture as the occupant of the first Chair in Logic at the University of Leeds, Peter Geach describes a Fall from Grace. He describes “a disaster, comparable to the Fall of Adam”. This Fall was Aristotle’s invention of Logic. Geach isn’t talking... Read more |
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1 December 2010 |
Lecture |
In ‘Worlds away’ W.V.Quine attempts to shew that possible worlds, unlike times, cannot provide robust continuity conditions for the sort of ordinary objects that we want to talk about. Quine thinks of individuals as ‘worms’ constructed as strings of events over times and... Read more |
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18 November 2010 to 19 November 2010 |
Workshop |
An ambitious project like the philosophy of information cannot operate in isolation. Not only does it have to rely on input from the sciences of information and computation, it also needs to convince those who are sympathetic to the project (including those who had been... Read more |
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26 October 2010 |
Lecture |
Computational structuralism has been presented by [Halbach-Horsten 2005] and [Quinon-Zdanowski 2007] as a particular type of structuralism with respect to the structure of natural numbers. It has even been claimed that this approach can solve problems of traditional... Read more |
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20 September 2010 to 22 September 2010 |
Conference |
According to the members of the Wiener Kreis, there was a strong connection between logic, reasoning, and rationality. They believed that human reasoning (and in particular scientific reasoning) is rational in so far as it is based on logic (which meant for them Classical... Read more |
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30 June 2010 |
Lecture |
That causal claims are context sensitive is uncontroversial; the ranger cites the lightning bolt as the cause of the forest fire whereas the Venusian cites the atmosphere’s being saturated with oxygen (Putnam 1982: 150). Controversy abounds as to whether this context... Read more |
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28 May 2010 |
Lecture |
In this talk the indicativity account of knowledge is applied to the problem of perceptual skepticism, and in particular to the retraction phenomenon, which involves the reaction of the subject to a skeptical challenge, whereby the subject retracts her earlier assertion. A... Read more |
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19 April 2010 |
Doctoral defense |
Doctoral Defense Rogier De Langhe, Promotor: Erik Weber and Jeroen Van Bouwel |
